# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Kiyomizu-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kiyomizu-dera): Kyoto, Temple. A hillside temple where a vast wooden stage, supported by 139 pillars without a single nail, offers sweeping views across Kyoto's eastern mountains.
- [Daitoku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/daitoku-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A vast Rinzai Zen temple complex in northern Kyoto with over 20 sub-temples, many featuring exceptional dry landscape rock gardens and historic tea rooms.
- [Hozugawa River Boat Ride](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hozugawa-river-boat-ride): Kyoto, Attraction. A two-hour wooden boat ride down the Hozu River from Kameoka to Arashiyama, navigating gentle rapids through a forested gorge. A perfect pairing with the Sagano Scenic Railway for a round trip. Operates year-round with heated kotatsu boats in winter.
- [Otagi Nenbutsu-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/otagi-nenbutsu-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A hillside temple at the far end of Arashiyama covered in 1,200 stone rakan carved by ordinary visitors in the 1980s. Closed on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the bus runs only about once an hour.
- [Kennin-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kennin-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Kyoto's oldest Zen temple. Founded 1202 by Eisai, who brought Zen and tea to Japan. Twin Dragons ceiling painting, Fujin-Raijin screen (reproduction; originals in Kyoto National Museum).
- [Eikan-do](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/eikan-do): Kyoto, Temple. A Higashiyama temple known as Momiji no Eikan-do for its roughly 3,000 maples, with an Amida Buddha that looks back over its left shoulder. Busy and expensive at the November peak, quiet the rest of the year.
- [Nonomiya Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nonomiya-shrine): Kyoto, Shrine. Small shrine at the bamboo grove entrance. Featured in The Tale of Genji. The black torii (bark-covered wood) is rare. Popular for love and matchmaking prayers.
- [Yasaka Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yasaka-shrine): Kyoto, Shrine. A Shinto shrine at the heart of Gion, center of the Gion Matsuri festival every July, one of Japan's three great festivals with elaborate float processions.
- [Tenryu-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tenryu-ji): Kyoto, Temple. World Heritage Site, head temple of the Tenryu branch of Rinzai Zen. The Sogenchi garden uses the Arashiyama mountains as borrowed scenery.
- [Chion-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/chion-in): Kyoto, Temple. The head temple of Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhism, featuring Japan's largest temple gate at 24 meters high and a colossal main hall that seats thousands.
- [Nijo Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nijo-castle): Kyoto, Castle. UNESCO World Heritage flatland castle. The floors squeak when you walk, designed as a security alarm. Kano school paintings inside.
- [Atago Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/atago-shrine): Kyoto, Shrine. Perched atop 924-meter Mt. Atago, this ancient shrine dedicated to the fire deity has protected Kyoto from fire for over 1,300 years. A rewarding hike from Kiyotaki: about four hours round trip.
- [Heian Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/heian-shrine): Kyoto, Shrine. A striking Meiji-era shrine featuring one of Japan's largest vermilion torii gates and a celebrated strolling garden designed by master landscaper Ogawa Jihei.
- [Kimono Forest](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kimono-forest): Kyoto, Attraction. 600 pillars wrapped in Kyo-Yuzen fabric at Randen Arashiyama Station. Glows at night. Free, open 24h. Good evening stop after the bamboo grove.
- [Okochi Sanso Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okochi-sanso-garden): Kyoto, Garden. The former villa garden of silent film actor Okochi Denjiro, perched on a hillside above the bamboo grove. Beautifully manicured strolling gardens offer sweeping views of Mount Hiei and the Hozu River valley. Entry includes matcha and a sweet.

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Last updated: 2026-11-10